Major Grants

Objectives

Invited applicants will be requested to submit their application which will be considered by the Board of Governors.

Round Information

By Invitation only

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In 2015-16 the Foundation's Board of Governors decided to separate Major Grants within its grantmaking program. Through the Major Grants stream, the Foundation will continue to recognise and consider iconic or significant projects, most of which will not fit within defined program area funding guidelines.

Projects are proactively sought out by Foundation from which select applications are then considered once a year by the Foundation’s Board of Governors.

The establishment of the Major Grants stream aims to protect funding allocations for the Foundation’s core program areas. This ensures the Foundation's tradition of large and catalytic grants can continue to assist the delivery of significant projects in the community.

As of October 2017, the Board of The Ian Potter Foundation committed to focusing its Major Grant funding for the next few years in some key areas. The following articulates those projects the Board will consider as prospective Major Grants.

Indigenous Projects and Homeless Accommodation demonstration projects

For the next three years (2017–2019) the Board will consider:

Demonstration projects that seek to build accommodation for the homeless, such projects to be potentially scalable and replicable nationally,

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